[Fot] Carb Mounting

[Tony Drews]

Mount the heat shield inboard of the soft mount - so you've got 
intake manifold, gasket, heat shield, soft mount, carburetor.

- Tony

At 09:30 PM 7/9/2007, Joe Boruch wrote:
>Yes, remove the stock fiber spacer.  I have the weber soft mounts isolating my
>SU's too, but am not using a heat shield, so I can't help you there.   I
>installed longer studs to make this work.  I think I had to elongate the holes
>on the O-ring plates.  It is ok that the plate only catches 2 studs, since
>they are diagonally opposite  You are not tightining the nuts down tight, so
>that isssue is a non-issue  Use nyloc nuts to keep them from vibrating loose.
>Joe(B)
>
>-- "Gary" <vintage.racer at comcast.net> wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I have acquired a set of Weber Carb "soft mounts", ie, thin metal plate with
>rubber O rings on each side, to help reduce the vibration getting to the SU
>carbs on my TR4 racer.  Questions:  do these replace the normal 1/4" thick,
>hard material, carb insulators?  Since the soft mount only has two bolt
>holes,
>what should be used as a spacer for the other two carb bolts?  I have one of
>Joe Alexander's heat shields for the carbs, should this go directly against
>the intake manifold with the soft mount on top or vica versa?  Thanks.
>
>Gary
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